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<\/a><\/p>\nSome of the creatures you will read about this week come from Greek Mythology.\u00a0 Surprisingly the Unicorn is not one of these creatures.\u00a0 In fact, they stem from the natural history books of early Greek writers.\u00a0 Yes, that is natural history as in they actually exist!\u00a0 The earliest description of the Unicorn dates all the way back to the 5th Century, BC.\u00a0 The Greeks believed that the Unicorn existed in a far away place known as India (not that far anymore due to airplanes and ships :)).\u00a0 Incidentally, the people of India also described their accounts of a one-horned horse.\u00a0 One of the names they used to describe this creature was “Rhinoceros”.\u00a0\u00a0 The accounts of Unicorns continue throughout history.\u00a0 They are even mentioned throughout the Bible.\u00a0 So do you think they actually existed?<\/p>\n
Unicorn Fast Fact – <\/strong>The famous 13th Century traveler, Marco Polo, describe what he thought was a Unicorn during a trip through Java.\u00a0 Unfortunately, his description turned out to be that of a Javan Rhinoceros.\u00a0 Is it possible that the Unicorn really was more of a rhinoceros type animal that became exaggerated and misinterpreted over the years?\u00a0 I will let you be the judge.<\/p>\nThat does it for the first Mythical Wild Fact.\u00a0 Make sure you tune in tomorrow as I am sure this week will be full of light-hearted fun.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I am sure all of you are stuffed with candy canes, chocolate and other Christmas snacks.\u00a0 I hope all of you enjoyed your holiday and I wanted to thank you for taking a second away from the eggnog to check out Wild Facts today.\u00a0 This isn’t a live post since I am actually enjoying some family time myself.\u00a0 Since I will be gone for the week, it means we get the latest Wild Fact Theme Week.\u00a0 This week will be different but I think it will be a lot of fun.\u00a0 This week’s theme is Mythical Wild Facts.\u00a0 Now I <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3621,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1459,4024],"tags":[348,1462,4127,4025,1460,1461],"yoast_head":"\n
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